problem of gender gap as well as employment of migrants …

ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …

‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …

This paper investigates the impacts of firm technology choice on cross-country variations in gender gaps …-country variations in both the wage and time gender gaps are substantially affected by technology choice---which suggests the persistence … of the gender gap---and that a convergence in the technology choice across countries does not imply smaller cross …

some light on the gender wage gap. A large contingent of inactive women in Macedonia including long-term unemployed due to …The objective of this research is to understand if large gender employment and participation gaps in Macedonia can shed …, is outside employment, but is not necessarily having the worst labour-market characteristics. In addition, both gender …